Just because she has fiery red hair, doesn’t mean that Aubrey has the temperament to match it. Actually, it was quite the opposite, Aubrey was the shy one out of the group of friends. Maybe it was the horrors she’d had to endure growing up or maybe it was because until she’d met her four best friends that summer long ago, she’d never felt a connection before. Now, as her best friends find love, she starts to dream about the day she could open her own life to something bigger, and she’d been Continue Reading
Melanie’s Mini’s: Bidding for the Bachelor by Jackie Lau, The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon, and Secrets of a One Night Stand by Naima Simone
Bidding for the Bachelor by Jackie LauFong Brothers #2Contemporary Romance August 17, 2021, by Jackie Lau Books Quintessentially on brand for Jackie Lau with her trademark food and craft cocktail tour of Toronto, Bidding for the Bachelor is also her first foray into m/m romance. If you read the first book in the Fong Brothers series, Pregnant by the Playboy, you would have met both of these characters and there were hints of where the second book in the series was headed. Unfortunately, my Continue Reading
Smexy Deals- Best Friend’s Sister, Enemies to Lovers, Marriage in Trouble, and Second Chance Romance tropes!
Get your game on with this sports romance box set! You get three complete standalone books in one set! Holding OnEthan Baxter was one of the best college football players in the country until one night, one stupid mistake, changed everything. Anyone But HerWhen Luke goes to stay with his best friend Cal for the summer, he's given one simple rule: Stay away from Cal's sister. Seems easy enough...if he wasn't in love with her. Kinda Hate YouA monster-truck-loving curvy girl falls for her Continue Reading
Smexy Rewind- 8/19
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Smexy Deals- Deals for books by Julie Ann Walker, Courtney Milan, Talia Hibbert, Naomi Novik, and more!
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Ann Walker delivers perfect pulse-pounding romantic suspense! The former Navy SEALs of Deep Six Salvage thought they could retire to the sea and hunt for treasures of the deep, but when trouble comes to visit, there'll be hell to pay. Ray “Wolf” Roanhorse took one look at Chrissy and knew she was the woman of his dreams. There’s a hitch, however. He screwed things up with her. Big time. Now all she wants is to be friends. He’ll have to be Continue Reading
Review: Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
Battle Royal by Lucy ParkerContemporary RomanceAugust 17, 2021, by AvonARC Reviewer: Melinda This book is the epitome of the grumpy/sunshine trope, I don’t know if I’ve ever read anything that could encapsulate it more. Every book I read by Lucy Parker I think okay, *this one* is my favorite, she can’t top it...and then I love the next one more? I don't know how she does it. Let me just list all the reasons you should read this book! The Baking Show - Operation Cake is a Continue Reading
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USA Today Bestselling Series! Join the club and get your Happy Ending!She’s on top…When superstar actress Claire Jordan researched her role for the Fierce Trilogy movies, she never expected the bond she feels with the author and her romance book club aka The Happy Endings Book Club. Soon Claire finds herself confessing her secret longing for a regular guy—no more egocentric wealthy players—and the book club is all too ready to help. In disguise as a regular girl, she’s all set for a date Continue Reading
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These women won't run from a fight...or true love. Meet all the ladies of the Shrew & Company private investigation agency and the men who love them in the full series collection of the action-packed paranormal romance series. PURSUING PATRICKAfter an unregulated research trial warped her DNA and turned her into an honest-to-goodness mutant, detective Dana Slade became an unwilling initiate into the mysterious paranormal world. The new were-cat Patrick O’Dwyer could be the perfect Continue Reading
Review: What We May Be by Layla Reyne
What We May Be by Layla ReyneLGBTQ Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense8/16/2021 Self PublishedARC Reviewed by Angela I ain't even gonna lie, I saw this cover and was IMMEDIATELY intrigued. I hadn't even read the blurb yet and I was already ready to jump right in. LOL. Okay, so then I finally read the blurb and discovered this was a throuple second chance romance and that pretty much sealed the deal. What We May Be starts off with a bang (literally), introducing its three main Continue Reading